If Australia and New Zealand restart travel, they should include the Pacific in their bubble | Michael Rose

Many Pacific nations are Covid-free and their economies depend on tourism. Cautiously restarting travel there could be an important move

As Australia and New Zealand tentatively celebrate successes in their battles to bring Covid-19 under control, Winston Peters, New Zealand’s deputy prime minister, has raised the possibility of the two nations opening up travel to one another.

The mooted “trans-Tasman bubble” would allow travel between these two countries, which seem – for now – to have brought infection rates under control, while keeping their borders with the rest of the world closed or tightly managed.

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